Mapping the world’s free-flowing rivers

Global patterns of current and future road infrastructure

(2018) Johan R Meijer et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Global proliferation of small hydropower plants - science and policy

(2018) Thiago BA Couto et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Human impacts on sediment in the Yangtze River: A review and new perspectives

(2018) H.F. Yang et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Impacts of large dams on the complexity of suspended sediment dynamics in the Yangtze River

(2018) Yuankun Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

How have the river discharges and sediment loads changed in the Changjiang River basin downstream of the Three Gorges Dam?

(2018) Leicheng Guo et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Changing sediment budget of the Mekong: Cumulative threats and management strategies for a large river basin

(2018) G. Mathias Kondolf et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Inter-basin water transfers and the expansion of aquatic invasive species

(2018) Belinda Gallardo et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Past, present, and future of ecological integrity assessment for fresh waters

(2017) Lauren M Kuehne et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Losing ground - scenarios of land loss as consequence of shifting sediment budgets in the Mekong Delta

(2017) R.J.P. Schmitt et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin

(2017) Edgardo M. Latrubesse et al.   NATURE

An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion

(2017) Pasquale Borrelli et al.   Nature Communications

Reconciling irrigated food production with environmental flows for Sustainable Development Goals implementation

(2017) Jonas Jägermeyr et al.   Nature Communications

Hydropower and the future of Amazonian biodiversity

(2016) Alexander C. Lees et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Eco-environmental impact of inter-basin water transfer projects: a review

(2016) Wen Zhuang   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Linking freshwater fishery management to global food security and biodiversity conservation

(2016) Peter B. McIntyre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong

(2016) K. O. Winemiller et al.   SCIENCE

A global empirical typology of anthropogenic drivers of environmental change in deltas

(2016) Zachary D. Tessler et al.   Sustainability Science

Estimating the volume and age of water stored in global lakes using a geo-statistical approach

(2016) Mathis Loïc Messager et al.   Nature Communications

River restoration by dam removal: Enhancing connectivity at watershed scales

(2016) F.J. Magilligan et al.   Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene

Water depletion: An improved metric for incorporating seasonal and dry-year water scarcity into water risk assessments

(2016) Kate A. Brauman et al.   Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene

Environmental consequences of damming the mainstream Lancang-Mekong River: A review

(2015) Hui Fan et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

An index-based framework for assessing patterns and trends in river fragmentation and flow regulation by global dams at multiple scales

(2015) Günther Grill et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Inland capture fisheries: status and data issues

(2015) D. M. Bartley et al.   FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AND ECOLOGY

Widespread Forest Vertebrate Extinctions Induced by a Mega Hydroelectric Dam in Lowland Amazonia

(2015) Maíra Benchimol et al.   PLoS One

Development of a global inundation map at high spatial resolution from topographic downscaling of coarse-scale remote sensing data

(2015) Etienne Fluet-Chouinard et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Ecological Restoration of Streams and Rivers: Shifting Strategies and Shifting Goals

(2014) Margaret A. Palmer et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

A global boom in hydropower dam construction

(2014) Christiane Zarfl et al.   AQUATIC SCIENCES

Sediment yield in Africa

(2014) Matthias Vanmaercke et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Sediment supply as a driver of river meandering and floodplain evolution in the Amazon Basin

(2014) José Antonio Constantine et al.   Nature Geoscience

Beyond the concrete: Accounting for ecosystem services from free-flowing rivers

(2014) Daniel A. Auerbach et al.   Ecosystem Services

Enhancing conservation of large-river biodiversity by accounting for tributaries

(2013) Brenda M Pracheil et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Global river hydrography and network routing: baseline data and new approaches to study the world's large river systems

(2013) Bernhard Lehner et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Incorporating climate change into systematic conservation planning

(2012) Craig R. Groves et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Implications of Dam Obstruction for Global Freshwater Fish Diversity

(2012) Catherine Reidy Liermann et al.   BIOSCIENCE

The role of mega dams in reducing sediment fluxes: A case study of large Asian rivers

(2012) Harish Gupta et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Trading-off fish biodiversity, food security, and hydropower in the Mekong River Basin

(2012) G. Ziv et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High-resolution mapping of the world's reservoirs and dams for sustainable river-flow management

(2011) Bernhard Lehner et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Basin-wide sediment trapping efficiency of emerging reservoirs along the Mekong

(2010) M. Kummu et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity

(2010) C. J. Vörösmarty et al.   NATURE

Long-term monitoring (1960–2008) of the river-sediment transport in the Red River Watershed (Vietnam): Temporal variability and dam-reservoir impact

(2010) Thi Ha Dang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The partitioning of the total sediment load of a river into suspended load and bedload: a review of empirical data

(2010) JENS M. TUROWSKI et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

A new map of global urban extent from MODIS satellite data

(2009) A Schneider et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Railroads, roads and lateral disconnection in the river landscapes of the continental United States

(2009) Paul Blanton et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Is Impervious Cover Still Important? Review of Recent Research

(2009) Thomas R. Schueler et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGIC ENGINEERING

Sinking deltas due to human activities

(2009) James P. M. Syvitski et al.   Nature Geoscience

Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

(2008) N. B. Grimm et al.   SCIENCE

Climate change and the world's river basins: anticipating management options

(2007) Margaret A Palmer et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Sedimentation in the Manwan reservoir in the Upper Mekong and its downstream impacts

(2007) K.D. Fu et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL